[Verse 1: punk shouter male lead, shouting over the fast two-tone drums] Three a.m., the radio is barkin', snow is past the knee Fourteen inches on the county, and the county's callin' me Big orange truck with a ten-foot blade and a hopper full of salt Plowin' Main and plowin' Church, and if you're stuck, it ain't my fault Every road gets cleared by four, the hospital, the bakery The fire hall, the gas station, the lot behind the factory Every road on the sheet has got a number and a time And the road up to the high school, buddy, that's the bottom line [Hook: punk shouter male lead, the whole band charging] School's last on the list, last on the list Every street in town is clear except for this School's last on the list, kid, and you know why Go back to bed, it's still comin' down outside [Verse 2: punk shouter male lead, faster, the organ going] Superintendent's in his robe at five, he's callin' every phone "Is the high school road done?" "Workin' on it, sir, I'm on my own" "Got a hydrant in the way, sir, got a mailbox and a cat Got a buried minivan, and a fella in a hat" Then I swing the blade on Maple, and I leave a wall of white Six feet high across the entrance to the bus lot, nice and tight Bus drivers can't get out, and the principal can't get in And the only thing that's movin' is the plow and my grin [Hook: punk shouter male lead, the whole band charging] School's last on the list, last on the list Every street in town is clear except for this School's last on the list, kid, and you know why Go back to bed, it's still comin' down outside [Verse 3: punk shouter male lead, shouting with joy] Six-fifteen, every phone in town lights up across the dark "School's closed," and a thousand kids go screamin' for the park I already did the sledding hill, I salted all the stairs Plowed a lane up to the top, and I put out folding chairs Thirty years I drove this truck, I never missed a single storm Never once got any thanks, just a supervisor's form But there's a kid on every block who's gonna grow up and say "There was one guy with a plow who gave the whole town a day" So if they write me up again, go on and write it in the file Put "Late on Route Nine" on my stone, I'll be grinnin' all the while [Hook: punk shouter male lead, the whole band charging] School's last on the list, last on the list Every street in town is clear except for this School's last on the list, kid, and you know why Go back to bed, it's still comin' down outside [False Ending: the band ends the song cold, then crashes back in for one more hook] Hold on, it's still snowin' [Hook: punk shouter male lead, louder than ever] School's last on the list, last on the list Every street in town is clear except for this School's last on the list, kid, and you know why Go back to bed, it's still comin' down outside [End]
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